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==A whole new world: creating your own PIE-derived language== | ==A whole new world: creating your own PIE-derived language== | ||
If you find | If you find that making romlangs, germlangs, slavlangs, sinolangs, celtlangs just a bit too constraining, the option of making up your own base on which to experiment further on is a safe bet for fun! The reasons for engaging in diachronic conlanging with PIE as point of origin are many and varied - just like the results. By building your own branch of the Indo-European tree you'll have lots of exciting moments dealing with concepts like common innovations, isoglosses, borrowings, conservatism-innovation, and so on. | ||
This chapter assumes a basic understanding of concepts such as [[wiki:phoneme|phoneme]], [[wiki:allophone|allophone]], [[wiki:Ablaut|ablaut]], [[wiki:Word order|word order]], and so on. | This chapter assumes a basic understanding of concepts such as [[wiki:phoneme|phoneme]], [[wiki:allophone|allophone]], [[wiki:Ablaut|ablaut]], [[wiki:Word order|word order]], and so on. | ||
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===Melting morphology=== | ===Melting morphology=== | ||
===Smithing smooth sentences syntactically=== | ===Smithing smooth sentences syntactically=== | ||